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An ASX-listed law firm has delivered its full-year financial results, detailing a boost to total revenue among other key figures.

A lawyer at plaintiff firm Shine Lawyers has slammed the failures of federal and state authorities to vaccinate Indigenous persons against COVID-19.

The age of coronavirus has forced legal practitioners to up-end how they deliver legal services. Such evolutions give rise to windows of opportunity as well, writes Mannie Kaur Verma.

Australia’s Mediator Standards Board has officially launched the MSB Annual Research Grant and awarded its first research project this week.

A new surveillance bill that has been rushed through by the Morrison government has largely ignored critical recommendations made by a parliamentary joint committee to provide better safeguards for whistleblowers and journalists.

Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action, represented by the Environmental Defenders Office, has celebrated a court ruling that will compel serious climate change action to be taken.

Legal bodies have called on the NSW authorities to exercise caution when issuing COVID-19 fines, as they have the potential to further harm communities.

At a time when client expectations of legal service delivery are evolving, firms must be especially sensitive to the dangers of cross-selling – or, as Sue-Ella Prodonovich warns it can become – “crass-selling”.

Starting one’s own practice is never easy, Mellissa Larkin reflects, but once initial hurdles are overcome, the freedom and flexibility can be unparalleled for practitioners, she says.

NAB has been hit with a $18.5 million penalty for failing to act efficiently, honestly and fairly in relation to misleading fee disclosure statements, for which the bank’s legal and commercial services executive has “sincerely” apologised.